Edited Volume

  • Andrea Rota (ed.) (forthcoming). Religion and Academia Reframed: Connecting Religion, Science, and Society in the Long Sixties. Leiden: Brill.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters (2018 – )

  • A. Rota (forthcoming). “Introduction. Religion, Academia, and Society in the Long Sixties.” In Andrea Rota (ed.) Religion and Academia Reframed: Connecting Religion, Science, and Society in the Long Sixties. Leiden: Brill.

  • Ch. Wyttenbach (forthcoming). “Expertise on NRMs in Switzerland: An Interstitial Space between the Religious and Scientific Fields.” In Andrea Rota (ed.) Religion and Academia Reframed: Connecting Religion, Science, and Society in the Long Sixties. Leiden: Brill.

  • S. Michel (forthcoming). “Planning the Change by Examining the Future. Prospective Thinking in the Swiss Catholic Church during the Long Sixties.” In Andrea Rota (ed.): Religion and Academia Reframed, Connecting Religion, Science, and Society in the Long Sixties, Leiden: Brill.

  • A. Rota, S. Michel, Ch. Wyttenbach (2022). «Religion und religious-social engineering. R(el)ationale Gestaltung von Religion als Erbe der langen 1960er Jahre.» In Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 74 (2), 91–109.

  • S. Michel (2022). “Die Relationalität der Religionssoziologie.” in Georg Lämmlin (ed.): Zukunftsaussichten für die Kirchen: 50 Jahre Pastoralsoziologie in Hannover. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Conference Papers (2018 – )

  • S. Michel (2021). “Die Relationalität der Religionssoziologie. Ein Fallbeispiel aus der Schweiz.”XXXIV. Jahrestagung der DVRW University of Leipzig, 14 September 2021.

  • Ch. Wyttenbach (2021). “Sektenbeobachtung in der Schweiz: ‘Alternative Religiosität’ und ‘Wissenschaftlichkeit’ in Massenmedien.” XXXIV. Jahrestagung der DVRW University of Leipzig, 16 September 2021.

  • Ch. Wyttenbach, A. Rota (2021). “Religion und ‘Social Engineering’ in den Long Sixties: Kirchenplanung und Konsumentenschutz in der Schweiz” XXXIV. Jahrestagung der DVRW, University of Leipzig, 16 September 2021.

  • S. Michel (2021). “The Entanglement of Religion and Science. On the Development of a Theoretical Framework.”118th annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR), University of Pisa, 31 August 2021.

  • Ch. Wyttenbach (2021). “Dissolution and Entanglement: The Field of Cult Watching in Switzerland since the 1960s.” 18th annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR), University of Pisa, 31 August 2021

  • S. Michel (2021). “Verwissenschaftlichung der Mission? Sozialethisches Denken im Kontakt mit der modernen Welt.” International Workshop Religion in Kontakt und Konflikt, University of Fribourg, 18. February 2021.

  • Ch. Wyttenbach (2021). “Sektenbeobachtung in der Schweiz und der religiöse Wandel seit den 1960er-Jahren: Transnationale Begriffe, lokale Konflikte.” International Workshop Religion in Kontakt und Konflikt, University of Fribourg, 18 February 2021.

  • A. Rota (2021). “Religion and Academia Reframed – An Introduction to the Legacy of the Long Sixties.” Online Conference Religion and Academia Reframed, University of Bern, 4 February 2021.

  • S. Michel (2021). “Planning the Future. Prospective Thinking in Swiss Ecclesiastical Organizations During the Long Sixties.” Online Conference Religion and Academia Reframed, University of Bern, 4 February 2021.

  • Ch. Wyttenbach (2021). “The Study of New Religious Movements in Switzerland: Religious Change and Terminologies in the Long Sixties.” Online Conference Religion and Academia Reframed, University of Bern, 5 February 2021.

  • Online Conference: Religion and Academia Reframed – Connecting Religion, Science, and Society in the Long Sixties. University of Bern. 4–5 February 2021.

  • Ch. Wyttenbach (2019). “Emerging religiosity, emerging assessments: a Swiss case study.” 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR), University of Tartu, June 27.

  • S. Michel (2019). “The Dynamics of Religion and Social Science: Insights into a Complex Relationship” 17th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR), University of Tartu, June 27.

  • S. Michel (2019). “The Dynamics of Religion and Social Science. Zur Entstehung der Religionssoziologie in der Schweiz seit den 1960er und 70er Jahren und deren Folgen für die Gegenwart.” Research Seminar of the Institute for the Science of religion, University of Bern, May 24.

  • Ch. Wyttenbach (2019). “Emerging religiosity, emerging assessments. Informations- und Beratungsstellen zu neuen religiösen Bewegungen in der Schweiz seit den 1960er-Jahren.” Research Seminar of the Institute for the Science of religion, University of Bern, May 17.

  • Ch. Wyttenbach, S. Michel, A. Rota (2019). “The Legacy of the 1960s and 1970s.” Research day of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern, May 13. Flyer

  • International Kickoff Workshop “The Legacy of The 1960s and the 1970s.” Münchenwiler Castle (Bern), November 9-10, 2018. Workshop program

  • A. Rota (2018). “The Leacy of the 1960s and 1970s. Religious and Scientific Entanglements. Introducing a New Research Project.” Research Seminar of the Institute for the Science of religion, University of Bern, May 25.


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